Means for hanging moldings



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PATENT OFFICE.

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

MEANS FOR HANGING MOLDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 482,742, dated.September 20, 1892.

Application filed December 28, 1891.

T0 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NIoKoLAUs HOFFEND, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Means for Hanging Moldings, which improvement is fully set forth inthe following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention has for its object the provid ing of means for attachingmoldings to the wall of a room so they may be removed therefrom andreplaced at any time when necessary, the means being such that themolding is not pierced by any body or defaced upon its exposed surface,and no adhesive sub stance is used.

The invention consists in forming incisions of peculiar form in the backsurface of the molding and providing nails of peculiar construction tobe driven into the wall, having spurs to enter said incisions.

The invention is hereinafter fullydescribed, and particularly pointedout in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a part of awall taken on the dotted line 1 1 in Fig. 2, with the molding in place.Fig. 2 is a view of the parts seen as indicated by arrow in Fig. 1. Fig.3 shows the rear surface of the molding with a part broken away andlongitudinally sectioned. Fig. 4 shows a slight modification in the formof the incisions in the rear surface of the molding, Fig. 5 being a viewof said rear surface.

The molding here shown is that commonly placed horizontally along thewall near the ceiling for the purpose of receiving the movable anddetachable hooks usually used for hanging pictures, light mirrors, andthe like.

Referring to the parts shown, A is the wall of the room, and B themolding detachably secured thereto.

a are nails or shafts driven into the wall for the purpose of hangingthe molding upon. These nails are formed with inclined projecting spursor part b, formed to enter a cavity or cavities 0, formed in the rearface of the molding.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the cavity a is Serial No. 418,368- (Nomodel.)

in the form of a longitudinal inclined kerf formed in the molding at anangle of about fortyfive degrees with the surface of the molding. Anumber of the nails are driven in the wall in a horizontal line wherethe molding is to be placed, the nails being two feet apart, more orless, as may be necessary. The molding is then placed so that the spursof the nails shall enter the kerf, as shown, when by pressing orslightly tapping the molding in a downward direction it is drawn firmlyagainst the surface of the wall.

To remove the molding for the purpose of repapering the wall or otherpurposes, it is pushed upward off the spurs of the nails, as will bereadily understood.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2,the head of the nail is sunk into the wall, sothat nothing projects except the spur. In the forms shown in Figs. 4;and 5 the head of the nail is driven just to the wall and leftprojecting therefrom, the molding being formed with a groove d inaddition to and joining the kerf c, in which to receive the projectingheads of the nails. When the heads of the nails are thus left toproject, the Wall is not marred so much as when the heads are driven inflush, as shown in Fig. 1. This in some cases is the better and moredesirable way.

What I claim as my invention is- A molding having a continuouslongitudinal kerf or channel formed in its rear surface, in combinationwith nails, each having its head formed with a surface at right angleswith the shaft or body of the nails to receive the stroke of the hammerin driving and an inclined extended part at one side of the head, thelatter, with its extended part, being received in said kerf or channelin the molding when the latter is put to place on the nails,substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 21st day ofDecember, 1891, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NIOKOLAUS HOFFEND.

Witnesses:

Enos B. WHITMORE, M. L. MODERMOTT.

